Grandmas Farm

The Lancaster farm has 8 baby lambs, so we headed out to bottle feed the cute little buggers...

 Visiting our dog Toby is an added bonus for sure!!

Happy Birthday Logan

He's 12.  Let's just hurry and write this post and pretend it never happened.  He's grown up too fast, that's for sure! 

Family Breakfast at IHOP...

 

Party Invitation...

 

The Basketball Game...

 

The Partygoers...

The Cake...

The In-N-Out

The Get Air...

 

The Silly String Ambush...

(not approved by me!)

The Concessions for Nacho Libre

 
**I had to keep reminding myself that this was a 12-year old BOY birthday party to keep me from "over-doing" it with decor and details.  I tried to be "cool" about it!**  It took every ounce of my being to let it be so plain...but I did it :)

 

 

Easter

Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt

 

Easter Sunday

Lava Hot Springs

We met up with our Boise friends, the Wagners again this year for a quick overnight trip to Lava Hot Springs.  Always low key, easy, relaxing, and fun for the kids and grown ups alike...

Talent Show

Carly and Hannah auditioned for the school talent show and made it!  For their talent, they played "Go Tell Aunt Rhode" on the violin with my mom (their grandma) accomanying them on the piano...darling!  Have I mentioned how blessed I am to live so close to my sister that our kids get to be best friends??  It's awesome!

School Election

Logan is my shy guy.  So, when he told me he wanted to run for student body officer for jr. high next year, I had a quick little panic attack.  Actually, with jr. high looming on the horizon, I've had a lot of anxiety.  I remember those days all too well.  ANYWAY....I smiled and said, "sure, you'd be great"!  And he would!  He's my self-motivated, driven, responsible, kind, loving boy, but not all that social.  But I just supported him any way I could.  They first needed a signed form from their teachers...check!  That one was easy.  Next, was the poster.  Logan actually thought of this slogan a year ago when his cousin ran for officer...

 

 

It was all him.  The picture, slogan, everything, which was kind of funny to my because it's not really his character.  But this was his race, his way...

 

Next was the 2 minute speech (queue another panic attack).  He insisted on wearing a suit, so we went out the night before and got him one for his 12th birthday that was the next week.  Got him a new hair style, and he wrote and memorized his own speech.  He did a great job!  It took a lot of nerve and I'm so proud of him :)

 

Since they're going from elementary to jr. high, they only take one student from each school.  Logan wasn't that person, but he took it well.  It was SO good for him.  I'm a happy mom :) :)